Turner v. Bowens’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ While the validity of parol agreements to settle disputed boundaries was long resisted on the ground that, in effect, they passed the ;title to real property without the solemnities required by the statute, it is now settled that where the dividing line is uncertain and there is a bona fide dispute as to' its location and the parties agree on the dividing line and execute the agreement by marking the line or building a fence thereon, such an agreement is not prohibited by the statute of frauds, nor is it within the meaning of the provisions of the law that regulate the manner of conveying real estate. The reason for the rule is that the parties do not undertake to acquire and to pass the title to real estate, as must be done by written contract or conveyance. They simply by agreement fix and determine the situation and location of the thing that they already own,, the purpose being simply by something agreed on to identify their several holdings and to make certain that which they regarded as uncertain. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Standifer v. Combs